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JAPAN
Jan 7, 2022

Going to space makes you 'obsessed with Earth,' billionaire Yusaku Maezawa says

The 46-year-old fashion magnate and art collector in December became the first space tourist on the International Space Station in over a decade.
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BUSINESS
Jan 7, 2022

New York Times to buy the Athletic in $550 million deal

While the purchase will add to revenue growth immediately, the Times expects the acquisition to reduce its operating profit for about three years.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 7, 2022

South Korean conservatives' plan to regain power starts to unravel

People Power Party candidate Yoon Suk-yeol's campaign has been beset by infighting as he struggles to quiet ethical controversies.
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WORLD
Jan 7, 2022

Brazil’s omicron toll begins to show even amid data blackout

Private diagnostics companies have seen positivity rates skyrocket to as much as 40% in January, up from less than 5% just a month ago.
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WORLD
Jan 7, 2022

China proposes cutting carbon quotas to help meet climate goals

The existing quotas have been quite lenient to polluters, creating a surplus of allowances that has weighed on prices.
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TENNIS
Jan 7, 2022

Novak Djokovic in limbo in Australia as legal team works to overturn visa denial

'This persecution is unfair, starting with the Australian prime minister,' Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said about Djokovic's situation.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 7, 2022

A year after U.S. Capitol siege, Biden blasts Trump's 'web of lies'

U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday accused his predecessor of spreading a “web of lies” to undermine U.S. democracy in a speech on the anniversary of the deadly Capitol attack by Trump supporters.
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BUSINESS
Jan 7, 2022

Japanese households cut spending even before omicron hit

Consumers showed less appetite for spending in November even as vaccination rates climbed and COVID-19 cases became rarer.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 7, 2022

Myanmar visit by Cambodia's Hun Sen sparks protests and ASEAN division

The junta's failure to implement a peace deal has fanned divisions within the 10-member bloc, and some say Hun Sen is backing Myanmar's military rulers by making the trip.
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PRESS / Events
Jan 7, 2022

“Integrating sustainability through local and global strategies” with Gavin Dixon

The Japan Times Cube Inc. (representative director, Minako Suematsu) launched Roundtable by The Japan Times, a series of talk events broadcasted in Japan.
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CULTURE / Film
Jan 7, 2022

Peter Bogdanovich, director whose career was a Hollywood drama, dies at 82

Bogdanovich hit the ground running in the '70s with films such as 'The Last Picture Show' but within the decade, he had become one of Hollywood's most ostracized filmmakers.
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WORLD
Jan 7, 2022

Brazil stops tracking savanna deforestation despite rising destruction

The Cerrado, which neighbors the Amazon rainforest and stretches across several Brazilian states, is a major bulwark against climate change due to the carbon it absorbs.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Jan 7, 2022

Start 2022 with a novel way of learning Japanese

Haven't settled on a New Year's resolution yet? Try setting a goal for yourself of reading a book in Japanese this year.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World / The Year Ahead: Reckonings
Jan 7, 2022

Debt-for-climate swaps make sense

The suitability of conditional debt relief as a financing tool for low-income countries to tackle climate change is not always obvious.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World / The Year Ahead: Reckonings
Jan 7, 2022

Europe’s time to shine in battle against climate change

The world's prime-mover and norm-setter on climate change is heading into a year of bruising and protracted political struggle to realize its own climate ambitions.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 6, 2022

Debate emerges over how to shrink Fed’s $8 trillion bond pile

Federal Reserve officials have begun debating how to approach shrinking a stockpile of more than $8 trillion of bonds.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 6, 2022

Japan's security role and Taiwan seen in focus at 'two-plus-two' talks with U.S.

Tension over democratically ruled Taiwan has risen over the past two years as China steps up military and diplomatic pressure to assert its sovereignty over the island.
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BUSINESS
Jan 6, 2022

Japan’s beloved Super Dry beer to get first-ever recipe change

The company claims the new formula, which will go on sale next month, will improve the drinkability and aroma of the beverage while maintaining its hallmark crispness.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 6, 2022

Titans of carmaking are plotting the overthrow of Elon Musk

The masters of mass production laid out plans to splurge $170 billion over the coming years to preserve their claim on the industry.
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MORE SPORTS
Jan 6, 2022

Kyrie Irving returns as leagues take new approach toward unvaccinated athletes

Critics feel sports leagues are giving in to their unvaccinated star players.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jan 6, 2022

Rapid COVID-19 tests are reselling for triple the retail price in U.S.

A spike in U.S. coronavirus cases has resulted in skyrocketing demand for at-home kits — and an unregulated private market selling them.
JAPAN / Explainer
Jan 6, 2022

The ins and outs of Japan's COVID-19 booster shot rollout

Japan recommends people receive a different shot for their third doses to the one they received in the initial rollout, but what's the rationale behind that strategy?
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 6, 2022

COVID-19 testing policies under scrutiny worldwide as omicron surge drives up demand

This time last year, vaccines offered hope that the pandemic might be over by now. Instead, the new variant is overloading public health systems.
Japan Times
TENNIS
Jan 6, 2022

Rafael Nadal expresses sympathy for Novak Djokovic, but says world No. 1 knew of risks

'In some way I feel sorry for him. But at the same time, he knew the conditions since a lot of months ago, so he makes his own decision.'
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CULTURE / Film
Jan 6, 2022

‘Haruhara-san’s Recorder’: A story of grief told with the lightest of brushstrokes

Kyoshi Sugita's resonant drama captures the process of mourning with restrained cinematography and subtle performances.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 6, 2022

Hong Kong tightens COVID rules, suspending inbound flights from eight countries

The flight bans will deepen the city's isolation from the outside world and mark a return to the tough restrictions imposed in the early days of the pandemic.
Japan Times
TENNIS
Jan 6, 2022

No. 1 Novak Djokovic denied entry to Australia

There has been enormous backlash to the decision to grant Djokovic a medical exemption for the Australian Open.

Longform

After the asset-price bubble crash of the early 1990s, employment at a Japanese company was no longer necessarily for life. As a result, a new generation is less willing to endure a toxic work culture —life’s too short, after all.
How Japan's youth are slowly changing the country's work ethic